Chris Tysor

Responsible for migration of all data and reports in the merger between ExxonMobil and Pioneer. Spans data lakes, data warehouses, ERP and analytics reporting. All on an accelerated timeline to get value fast.

Creating a new organization of 150 employees, and 100 managed service providers to treat data as a product, building master data sets, governance, and quality into accessible data sets. We also enable corporate-wide analytics use cases. We are building repeatable processes, streamlining organizations, all while treating data as an asset for scalable value. In my care are competent product managers using a scaled agile framework to build user-centric MVPs. The technical challenge of aligning business processes for data management across the enterprise is simultaneously immense and exciting. Core skills and technologies: Product Management, data governance, data modeling, organizational design, process modeling, stakeholder stewardship, value-driven metrics, OKRs, Scaled Agile, and more. Technology stack includes Collibra, Enterworks, EBX, Snowflake, Kafka, Mulesoft, Mural, ADO, and Azure SQL. Early Wins: Created and aligned on a common execution framework, metrics, and OKRs. Delivered our first data product. Identified $M's in potential value with identified customers. Launched 8 consecutive product development teams with a global resource footprint. Drove data operations SLAs to stable/green within 3 months of launch.

Manage 6 teams across 4 countries focused on the creation of software products to turn research into reality. From Hadoop data lakes, to APIs, to HPC clusters, and web development, we enable the corporations best researchers to turn their concepts into products at scale across ExxonMobil. Scope includes headcount and budgets, skill development, cyber-resiliency, critical uptime, structural team improvements and strategic alignment, to name a few. The high-powered team includes PhDs and scientists, C/C++ , Python and Azure developers, and infrastructure designers and optimizers, This is an exciting team within a rewarding problem space and I'm grateful for the opportunity have an impact here. • Provides architectural process and content guidance to 6 solution architects to design, estimate, and prioritize large-scale Azure, C#, and Python applications (real time optimization, information management, computer vision, NLP, document publications, LabLan operations, HPC cluster) To date I have: • Created purpose-driven vision, aligned strategy to prioritized operating principles, drove Agile execution across diverse portfolio of 10 product teams. Shifted to Product Funding for added clarity. • Provided staffing, recruitment, retention, performance, and mentorship for global team of ~100 (direct guidance to 6 line managers and 6 solution architects) and budget stewardship of $13M in operations) • Dramatically improved cybersecurity performance (remediation and initial quality), agile cycle-time and throughput, and organizational communication channels. • Shifted staffing model for >$3M in sustainable cost savings while successfully delivering on business projects (GPU cluster completion, engineering application deployments, Azure modernization, data lake upgrade)

Across two roles in ExxonMobil's IT Strategy division I developed a passion for strategy and innovation, founded on Willie Pietersen's strategic learning cycle and Lean Startup/Design Thinking principles. In these roles I created from scratch a strategic consulting organization, and a Digital Ventures organization to do early prototyping of emerging IT technology concepts. Specific accomplishments included: • Coordinated CIO-sponsored strategic assessment for entire IT organization resulting in 6 key tracks and over $150M in foundational improvements. • Strategic process advisor for CEO-sponsored Digital Strategy for ExxonMobil. Published strategic white paper still referenced today defining ambitions and resulting in corporate-wide digital investments. • Created and executed internal strategy consultancy, acting as process expert, building strategic roadmaps for >10 IT divisions. • Built and ran Innovation Team using LeanStartup and Design Thinking to experiment and build technology for computer vision, acoustic monitoring, and new business model opportunities. Two key experiments continue today at scale across ExxonMobil. • Created ExxonMobil's Digital University (EDU) to upskill senior business leaders in digital concepts (Big Data, Network effect, IoT, Platform theory, AI/ML, and Analytics) In these roles I built a unique knack for creating strategic clarity, aligning to the right problem to solve, building structures for deploying novel computing technologies across an enterprise, and a curiosity to ask better questions and drive transformative changes.

Relationship management with Upstream geoscience and research customers, budget and headcount stewardship, strategy development, supervision of staff (skills development, career guidance, move planning, project staffing), and various special projects.

Business planning, budgeting and financial stewardship for Upstream IT groups at ExxonMobil.

Team Lead on a project creating an application to help Upstream engineers and geoscientists find and use knowledge and information.

Team lead duties for a group of ~20 developers, focusing on data movement and integration activities.

Software development, creating and modifying technical applications for Upstream customers. Examples include applications to model reservoir decline curves, manage new drilling operations, and organize and archive geoscience metadata across the corporation. Primary languages were C#, ASP.net, Java, and Javascript.

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